Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#77523c
#77523c
hex
#77523crgb
rgb(119, 82, 60)hsl
hsl(22, 33%, 35%)oklch
oklch(0.473 0.06 51.5)Closest name: Brownstone (#785441)Relative luminance 0.1028
Colors that go with #77523c
Teal, Champagne and Copper lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #77523c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #77523c, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #77523c: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #77523c: 4 real palettes, including Trader Joe's's brand system and Newsprint, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #77523c in 4 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Console Light, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #77523c in 5 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Aesop's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #77523c: 8 real palettes, including Darkroom and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #77523c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #77523c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #77523c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.87:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.06:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #77523c as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#77523c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #77523c
live endpointPoint any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #77523c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/77523c-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md